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From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
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Subject: Re: question on bad newsgroups
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Date: 30 May 89 13:33:13 GMT
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In article <804@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> news@ivucsb.UUCP (Todd Day) writes:
>In article <185@icdi10.uucp> fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home) writes:
>~Bad Newsgroups Received
>~a.politic 18               This is the stuff I'm talking about.
>~a.single 1
>~alk.politics.gun 5
>~lt.bb 1
>~lt.conspirac 1
>
>I'm getting the same problem here, but I can't seem to trace down the
>culprit.  I can't even find the messages that have this problem.  Anybody
>have any clues?

I don't know enough about awk to find the problem but I think it is created in 
Eric Fair's awk script originally written in May, 1984 to give some news stats.

I don't want to post the whole script but here is the part that prints:


# USAGE:  awk -f report_awk /usr/lib/news/log
#
# AWK script which eats netnews log files and produces a summary of USENET
# traffic and errors over the period of time that the log was collected.
#
# August 31, 1986
#
# Erik E.  Fair <dual!fair>
# Original Author, May 22, 1984
#
# Brad Eacker <onyx!brad>
# Modified to simplify the record processing and to sort the output.
#
# Erik E.  Fair <dual!fair>
# Modifed to provide information about control messages.
#
# Erik E.  Fair <dual!fair>
# Bug in system name extraction fixed.  It was assumed that the forth field
# (system name) always had a dot.  local is one that doesn't.  Some others
# (including 2.9 sites) don't either.
#
# Earl Wallace <pesnta!earlw>
# The "sent" field was changed from $5 to $6 in 2.10.2 (beta)
# named "newstats" and called with no arguments.
#
# Erik E.  Fair <dual!fair>
# Remove support for 2.10.1, revise for 2.10.2 to provide information
# about junked articles, garbled articles, and bad newsgroups
#
# Erik E.  Fair <ucbvax!fair>
# Minor bug fix to bad newsgroup reporting, also now counting ``old''
# articles as junked, with counter for number that are `old'.
#
# Erik E.  Fair <ucbvax!fair>
# Fix up the domain & local hosts support
#
# Erik E.  Fair <ucbvax!fair>
# Fix up the counting of gatewayed material, add counting of "linecount"
# problems.  Additional cleanup to make things faster.

Is it in here?
Perhaps some kind soul would look at the whole script and fix this problem?

#
# selection sort
			max = 0;
			for( j in newsgcnt ) {
				if (newsgcnt[j] > max) {
					i = j;
					max = newsgcnt[j];
				}
			}
			if (max == 0) break;
			printf(fmt, i, newsgcnt[i]);
			newsgcnt[i] = 0;
		}
	}

	if (badgrp) {
		printf("\nBad Newsgroups Received\n");
		l = 0;
		for( i in badng ) {
			if (l < length(i)) l = length(i);
		}
		fmt = sprintf("%%-%ds %%5d\n", l);
		for( ; ; ) {
# selection sort
			i = invalid;
			for( j in badng ) {
				if (badng[j] > 0 && j < i) i = j;
			}
			if (i == invalid) break;
			printf(fmt, i, badng[i]);
			badng[i] = 0;
		}
	}
}






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